What Has NOT Changed in China? An Analysis of the Chinese One-Party Dictatorship

[ssheppard]

Tailoring School Textbooks

CCP propaganda departments also control what is taught and what is not taught in Chinese schools. Political education singing praises of the CCP leadership is compulsory for every youngster, and a “must pass” subject for school leavers. After the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, paramount leader and long-time colleague of Mao, Deng Xiaoping concluded that the cause of the pro-democracy movement was that political education had been neglected.

In the months and years that followed, new textbooks were compiled that emphasize the glories of the CCP, omit inconvenient truths and whitewash the many so-called “errors” that the CCP had made. This so-called patriotic education extends beyond schools to include television, film, and the news media.

All this has serious consequences. Modern Chinese history is being re-written while participants and witnesses of events are still well alive. Many middle-aged people do not know just 50 years ago the worst famine in human history took place in China and claimed at least 36 million lives, still less do they know the Anti-Rightist campaign which inflicted over 20 years’ untold sufferings on half a million of the cream of the Chinese society.

Many young or not so young people in China today do not know what the Cultural Revolution was, and many young people do not know Tian’anmen massacre that took place in Beijing merely 20 years ago. Instead, thanks to the permeating propaganda, many people in China believe in the infallibility of the CCP and its exclusive and almost divine-given right to rule.

 

[huzihaidao12]

Buddy... there are enough people on this forum who have made efforts to make sure the situation is the way its is right now....you can not blame only one side.... as I said ....Its a fair Exchange...Give and Take..... its mutual...if people want to know ...and learn....everyone is willing to contribute...but some people love to take cheap shots.....and they only get frustrated when someone retaliates....

We can have some good exchange ..and learning..depending upon what the intentions are........but if its about attacking...and attacking...be ready for some one to respond.


Thanks for your patience.

A nation's history is not so simple, but India and Pakistan should be able to understand China, and against colonial oppression of violence should be called heroic, he and violence in general there is a difference between

 

[huzihaidao12]

Tian’anmen,We already have enough in the domestic BBS discussion, its conclusions would not be satisfied and pleased with the West

 

[ssheppard]

A nation's history is not so simple, but India and Pakistan should be able to understand China, and against colonial oppression of violence should be called heroic, he and violence in general there is a difference between

Agree ....the history is not always simple......and and it takes patiance o lean and exchange thoughts....and I think most people come here with an open mind....but for how long...when there is mudslinging happening from one side....constantly....can you stop other side to take it lying down....


looking forward to some creative and healthy exchanges with you.

 

[huzihaidao12]

BTW,If I said that all young people are know that, some people would be very surprised?

 

[ssheppard]

BTW,If I said that all young people are know that, some people would be very surprised?

Well thats the point....everyone here ... at least on this forum ....Well I think so.....is aware of their history and the challenges they face as a country....there is no point in pinning each other down using some....who love to do this ...irrespective of the fact that they themselves belong to a nation who has faced and is still facing a fair share of challenges...

 

[ssheppard]

Maintaining Order Through Mind Control


If we say the PLA, PAP and the regular police force maintain a physical control over the population, the CCP propaganda departments try to control the people’s minds. China now has more than 2,000 newspapers, 9,000 magazines 2,000 television channels, as well as 450 radio stations, but they are all, without a single exception, under the watchful eye of the propaganda department in Beijing or provincial propaganda departments.

The CCP propaganda bosses issue daily instructions on what may and may not be reported and how to report on sensitive matters. Here is an example: On June the 4th every year there is a massive public rally in Hong Kong to commemorate the Tian’anmen Massacre in 1989 and to demand democracy in China. It is the biggest political rally in the territory, attended by several tens of thousands of citizens, but just across the border, there was not a word uttered about it in the Chinese press, radio or on TV.

On July 1, 2003, half a million Hong Kong people staged a massive demonstration demanding democracy, but there was stony silence across the border in the mainland Chinese media. Ordinary Chinese simply do not know these events occur because the Party decides it is not convenient for the people to know of them. Instead the people in mainland China are constantly fed with such rubbish as how “patriotic” Hong Kong billionaire tycoons love their “socialist” motherland.

Journalists who digress from CCP instructions will be suspended from work or even imprisoned. According to the Amnesty International 2008 Report: State of World’s Human Rights: “Around 30 journalists were known to be in prison and at least 50 individuals were in prison for posting their views on the internet. People were often punished simply for accessing banned websites.”

 

[ek_indian]

@ssheppard:

We are not seeing a single link to back up anything you said. Is there any special reason?

 

[ssheppard]

@ssheppard:

We are not seeing a single link to back up anything you said. Is there any special reason?

Let me finish sir...I will provide all the links and supporting documents.....have Patience......


Thanks in advance for being Patient...

 

[ssheppard]

Land Reform and Famine

Immediately after the CCP gained control of the mainland, it introduced a nation-wide land reform. This was a violent campaign which killed millions of country gentry and annihilated the entire landowning class. Anyway, peasants got their land, right? Wrong. Hardly had the land reform been concluded, when the CCP launched its Soviet-styled agricultural collectivization drive.

Peasants were forced to give up their newly-acquired land to agricultural co-operatives and people’s communes, and thus began their 30-year socialist ordeal; during 1959-1962 at least 36 million peasants died of starvation in a nation-wide famine. This worst famine in human history was caused entirely by Mao Zedong’s lunatic economic adventurism called the Great Leap Forward. It is therefore quite legitimate to contend that the promise of “Land to the tiller” was a big lie and the CCP had betrayed Chinese peasantry.


China's Communist-led reforms continue to hold peasants back

After two decades of poverty and a famine in which 60 of the 175 villagers starved to death as Chairman Mao's commune system went disastrously wrong, 18 villagers signed a secret oath, embarking on an illegal experiment in private farming in Xiaogang village, Anhui province.
In a move that would soon be held up as an example for the rest of the country to follow, the peasants vowed to abandon the commune, farm their own land and look after the children of anyone sent to prison or killed for daring to challenge Marxist orthodoxy.

"The decision was one of hopelessness," said Yan Junchang, one of the two men whose idea it was. "We divided the land to save each others' lives. If we hadn't, we would have died of hunger."
It turned out it was not just their families who were going hungry under the collective farming ordered by the Communist Party: the new Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping decided the whole country must put itself on the road to reform. It started with agriculture, but industry followed.
Today, the country's economy is the third largest in the world, an estimated 400 million people have been dragged out of poverty, and a US intelligence report last week said the day was approaching when it would have to share power with the rising giants of Asia.
China's 30 years of reform have boosted the country's gross income by more than nine per cent a year.
"Our world has turned upside down," said Guan Ximiao, 55, another resident, whose grandmother died of starvation. "Before, farmers were happy if they had a meal a day. Now they have three - and sometimes alcohol too."
When President Hu Jintao last month put forward a new plan for land reform, in which farmers are allowed to sell their land-leases for cash, he went to Xiaogang to publicise the move. Once again, practice preceded theory - Mr Yan and 11 neighbours have already let their land to a Shanghai pig-farming company.
But political reform has never moved forward with so simple a trajectory. The land reforms were challenged by conservatives and faction fighting, though conducted less violently than in the past, is as powerful a factor as ever.
In the latest example, former president Jiang Zemin has ordered the resignation of the editors and publisher of a leading political journal after it published an article on a former leader who was associated with China's rural reforms but who was later disgraced.
The editors have refused to go, leading to a stand-off in the Party's central committee.
Xiaogang is not the only place whose visionary law-breaking helped set the country on the path to economic growth, but it is one of the most famous.
It has become a "Model village" and a key element of Chinese propaganda, even if the tales of success are more based in myth than reality.
In Mao's time peasants were urged to "learn from Dazhai", a commune praised for its self-reliance and huge yields, later found to be grossly exaggerated, during a time that food was scarce. Nonetheless, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the signing of the secret oath, the surviving Xiaogang revolutionaries are being taken on a trip to Dazhai, the original Marxist model.
"Xiaogang is famous for being the first village to reform, but it is still not rich," said the village's party secretary, "We hope to learn more of the spirit of Dazhai and other villages' hard work and innovation."

Now since people want me to post a link to everything I post.....:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...d-reforms-continue-to-hold-peasants-back.html

 

[PlanetWarrior]

I've been to China and the system works well there. Order and social enlightenment. No country in the world can deny that there exists poverty or corruption in its ranks. The past excesses of the CCP is something that they will have to answer to the people of China about in due course. The current performance of the CCP is something that they will be rewarded for in due course. Given the current domestic and global performance of the CCP I truly do believe that the Chinese race is destined for great heights.

China as a political state is evolving. Excesses such as described in some of the posts here existed in the worlds leading democracy up until the 1970s and even during the era of Ronald Reagan to a certain extent. Recall the McCarty Commission against communism during the 60s and the torment suffered by any American who was labelled a "communist"? Not to say that the current situation is any different. Guatanamo Bay imprisons any American or foreign citizen without trial indefinately if they are suspected to be involved with Islamic terrorism. So what is the difference between the communist Chinese model of control and the American democratic model of control ?

Some Chinese members of this forum generally hurl abuse towards India and we are inclined to respond in kind. We must however be magnaminous and give credit where it is due. The Chinese nation is on an upward swing and the people of China whether living in China or abroard are proud of their nation's growth. Their political system is for them to adjust at their own pace. We as outsiders need to compliment them on and learn from them on their growth. We can also take a straw from their hat when it comes to their attitude towards corruption by officials. Quick heavy handed punishment is meted out hence you do not have every second official asking you for a bribe from the time you land in China to the time you exit.

 

[Sino-PakFriendship]

Some 60 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power after a bloody civil war and established the “People’s Republic” of China.

The CCP was able to win the civil war because most Chinese people were disappointed with the legitimate Guomindang government, a corrupt and undemocratic regime, and the CCP made wonderful promises.

Two of them were especially appealing: The first is the promise of land reform, made to the peasantry who made up more than 80% of the population. The second is the promise of democracy, made particularly to the better educated urban people.

What happened to both of these promises?

One day Western Whites, Turkish and Indian distort Chinese history and fabricate that Tibet and Xinjiang are not part of China, one day most of Chinese citizen will continue to support CCP.

That's all.

 

[oct605032048]

I've been to China and the system works well there. Order and social enlightenment. No country in the world can deny that there exists poverty or corruption in its ranks. The past excesses of the CCP is something that they will have to answer to the people of China about in due course. The current performance of the CCP is something that they will be rewarded for in due course. Given the current domestic and global performance of the CCP I truly do believe that the Chinese race is destined for great heights.

China as a political state is evolving. Excesses such as described in some of the posts here existed in the worlds leading democracy up until the 1970s and even during the era of Ronald Reagan to a certain extent. Recall the McCarty Commission against communism during the 60s and the torment suffered by any American who was labelled a "communist"? Not to say that the current situation is any different. Guatanamo Bay imprisons any American or foreign citizen without trial indefinately if they are suspected to be involved with Islamic terrorism. So what is the difference between the communist Chinese model of control and the American democratic model of control ?

Some Chinese members of this forum generally hurl abuse towards India and we are inclined to respond in kind. We must however be magnaminous and give credit where it is due. The Chinese nation is on an upward swing and the people of China whether living in China or abroard are proud of their nation's growth. Their political system is for them to adjust at their own pace. We as outsiders need to compliment them on and learn from them on their growth. We can also take a straw from their hat when it comes to their attitude towards corruption by officials. Quick heavy handed punishment is meted out hence you do not have every second official asking you for a bribe from the time you land in China to the time you exit.

What a post by an indian member! Surprise indeed.

 

[oct605032048]

One day Western Whites, Turkish and Indian distort Chinese history and fabricate that Tibet and Xinjiang are not part of China, one day most of Chinese citizen will continue to support CCP.

That's all.

Indeed.
Country always comes first to the party and individual rights.

 

[grey boy 2]

I've been to China and the system works well there. Order and social enlightenment. No country in the world can deny that there exists poverty or corruption in its ranks. The past excesses of the CCP is something that they will have to answer to the people of China about in due course. The current performance of the CCP is something that they will be rewarded for in due course. Given the current domestic and global performance of the CCP I truly do believe that the Chinese race is destined for great heights.

China as a political state is evolving. Excesses such as described in some of the posts here existed in the worlds leading democracy up until the 1970s and even during the era of Ronald Reagan to a certain extent. Recall the McCarty Commission against communism during the 60s and the torment suffered by any American who was labelled a "communist"? Not to say that the current situation is any different. Guatanamo Bay imprisons any American or foreign citizen without trial indefinately if they are suspected to be involved with Islamic terrorism. So what is the difference between the communist Chinese model of control and the American democratic model of control ?

Some Chinese members of this forum generally hurl abuse towards India and we are inclined to respond in kind. We must however be magnaminous and give credit where it is due. The Chinese nation is on an upward swing and the people of China whether living in China or abroard are proud of their nation's growth. Their political system is for them to adjust at their own pace. We as outsiders need to compliment them on and learn from them on their growth. We can also take a straw from their hat when it comes to their attitude towards corruption by officials. Quick heavy handed punishment is meted out hence you do not have every second official asking you for a bribe from the time you land in China to the time you exit.

Planetwarrior buddy, you just killed my "India" thread,

Thanks a lot. HaHaHa